Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs [Solved!]

2007-10-09 Thread Bill
On Tue, 2007-09-10 at 08:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > the beauty of open source eh? If you have a problem, odds are someone > else has had it too and there is a solution out there. > > Sometimes it makes me wish I could encounter a truly original problem > so that I could give it b

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs [Solved!]

2007-10-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:32:07AM -0700, Bill wrote: > > What did work was a little utility called batchconv from > Laurent Godard of France located at: > http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_en.html the beauty of open source eh? If you have a problem, odds are someone else has had it too

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs [Solved!]

2007-10-09 Thread Bill
On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 03:55 -0700, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail > merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be > faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can > handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a looping scr

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/07 11:11, Bill wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 10:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord might be able to do what you want. >>> >>> No I checked. There is a difference between internal file formats >>> and exportable or print-to-file forma

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:11:03AM -0700, Bill wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 10:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> AbiWord might be able to do what you want. > > > > > > No I checked. There is a difference between internal file formats > > > and exportable or print-to-file formats. This seconda

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-05 Thread Bill
On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 10:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> AbiWord might be able to do what you want. > > > > No I checked. There is a difference between internal file formats > > and exportable or print-to-file formats. This secondary support > > can be applied only to one file at a time. It's a

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/07 01:30, Bill wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 11:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: > Hi fol

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Bill
On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 11:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> * Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> I've got a p

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:30:24AM -0700, Bill wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 07:34 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > These instructions: > > > > http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html > > > > show how to script the conversion using OOo macros and its command line > > in

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail >>> merge that produce

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Bill
On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 07:34 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:55:21AM -0700, Bill wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail > > merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be > > faxed in bulk, but of course none of th

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Bill
On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail > > merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be > > faxed in bulk, but of course none o

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:55:21AM -0700, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail > merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be > faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can > handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a loop

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: > Hi folks, > > I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail > merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be > faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can > handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a loop